Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-11
G1ECORD and DISCORD.
INV the Harmony in Which God Made
The World was Destroyed by the
Dissonance of Sin.
Tho Discords OF the World, Of Society
ard of the Human Intellect a
Shlpwreck OF HarmOniess
The sorg the Morning Stars Sang To
c,ther at the Beginning of the World
VIII Be ResUmsd Again.
s,soIsl to the Gazette.

4,oture in the music at the brooklyn
T.bernscle is the congregational singing
To-day after the opening hymn, in which
III the thousands heartily participated,
professor Browne gave on the organ
scberzo, opus 81, by Mendelssohn. The
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D ex-
-ounded 8 chapter in the First Book Of
Samuel where Saul, possessed OF an evil
sn,rit threw 8 jsyelin at David, who
was playing on the harp before him, thus
showing that the evil spirit does not like
s,cred music. The subject of the sermon
vas Concord and Discord," and the
tout WAS Job xviii, CT: "Who laid
the cornerstone thereof when the morn
ing s.szs sang together?" Dr.. Tslmage
said:
We have all seen the ceremony at the
IsviDg Of the cornerstone of church, asy-
INN or Masonic temple. Into the hollow
n the stone we're placed scrolls of his
torv and important documents to be
suggestive if, one or two hundred years
.ffeT. the building should be destroyed
nv fire or torn down. We remember the
silver troWel or iron hammer that smote
the squsre piece Of granite into sanctity
We remember some venerable man who
presided, WELDING the troWel or ham
mer, We remember also the music as
the choir stood on the scattered stones
and timber of the building about to be
constructed. The leaves Of the note
books futtered in the wind and were
turned over with great rustling, and we
remember how the bass, baritone, tenor,
contralto and soprano voices commin-
gled. They had for marY days been re-
hearsing the special programme, that it
might De worthy OF the cornerstone lay
ing.
In nv text The poet Of U calls US to q
grsnder ceremony-the laying Of the
fouudstion of this great temple Of q
world. The cornerstone WAS block Of
light and the trOWel Was Of celestial
crystal. All about ana On the embark
ments eff cloud stood the angelic Choris-
tiers, unrolling their librettos Of overture,
and other worlds clGpped cymbsls while
the ceremony went on, and God, the
architect, by stroke of light after stroke
of light, dedicated this great cathedral
of the world, with mountains for pillars,
and sky for frescoed ceiling, and flower
Ing fields for floor, and sunrise and mid
night aurora for upholstery. "Who laid
the cornerstone thereof, when the morn
ing stars sang togetherf"
The fsCt is that the whole universe was
complete cadence, an unbFoken dithyr-
amb, 8 musical pOr f0lio. The great
sheet Of immensely had been spread out,
and written on it were the stars, the
smaller Of them minims, the larger Of
them sustained notes. The meteors
marked the staCcsto passages, the whole
heavens gamut, with all sounds, intona-
tons and modulations, the space between
the worlds musical interval, trembling
OF stellar light quaVer, the thunder u
base clet, the wind among the trees q
treble Clef. That is the way God made
all things, perfect harmony.
But one day q hsrp-str1ng snapped in
the great orchestra. One day voice
sounded out of tune. One day discord,
HARSH AND TERRIFIC,
grated upon the glorious antiphone. Il
was sin that made the dissonance, and
that harsh discOrd has been sounding
through the centuries. All the work of
Christians, and phil6nthopists, and re-
formers Of all ages is TO stop that disCord
and get alI things back into the perfect
harmony which WAS heard at the laying
Of the cornerstone, when the morning
stars sang together. Before l get
through, if l am diVinely helped, I will
make it pain that sin is disc0rd and
righteousness is harmony.
Thst things in general are out of tune
IS as plain as 10 musicians ear IS the
unhappy clash Of ClArionet Snd bass0on in
Bn orchestral rendering.
The worlds health out Of tune Weak
lung and the atmosphere ia collision, dis
ordered eye and noorday light in quarrel,
rheumatic limb and damp weather in
struggle, neuTalgias, and pneumonias,
snd ConsUmptiOns, and epilepseis IL tloCks
sWoop upon neighborhoods and cities
Where you find one person with sound
throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear,
ana easy respiration, and regular pulsa-
tlon, and supple limb, aud prime diges-
lloni and steady nerves, you find hun
oTed who have 20 be very careful because
t1ls, or that, or the other physical func-
ton is disorderod.
The human intellect out Of tune: The
judgment wrongly swt rVed, or the mem
CRY lesky, or the will weak, or the temper
lonammsble, and the we'll bal5nCed mind
exceptional. Domestic life out of tune {:
Only here and there q cobjugal outbreak
Of lncOmpatiOility of temper through the
divorce courts, or q filisl outbreak about
father's will through the surrogate's
court, or csse of wife-beating or hus-
oand poisoning through the criminal
courts but thousands of families with
June outside and January within.
Society out of tune:
LABOR AND CAPITAL,
lnelr hands on each others throat. Spirit
u caste keeping those down in the social
scale In q struggle to get up, and putting
nose who are up in anxiety lest they have
10 come down. No wonder the old piano-
iorIe Of society is Sll out of tune, when
hypocrisy, and lying, and subtertuge, and
uouole dealing, and sycophancy, and
eaaflatanism, and revenge have for six
thousand years been banging away at the
Keys and stamping the pedals.
On ell sides there is q perpetual ship
WICK OF hsrmonies. Nations
N discord: Without realizing
$50 wrong is the feeling of nation for ma
sOn that the symbols chosen are
HeIce and destructive. In this country,
Snefe our skies are full of robins, and
uoYes, andsmorning laTks, we have our
nsuonAl symbol, the fierce and filthy
esgie, as immoral bird SIS can be found
n all the ornithological catalogues. In
, eGest Britain, where they have lambs and
iisloW deer, their symbol is the merciless
t tton' In Russis, where from between her
tttOzsn north and blooming south all
sLnoly beasts dwell, they choose the
sIoWling tear; and in the worlds herald
= lavorite figure is the dragon, which
q, winged serpent, teroeIous and death
nd u- L. 81 Il Is